It was almost 11 days ago when I last posted here. Tsk tsk to think that I plan posting daily as much as I could when I made this blog a month or so ago.
To ensure this, I changed my Yahoo homepage to blogger (it has been Yahoo since I "discovered" the internet about 12 years ago). This is to constantly remind me that when I begin to surf (which I do daily), I would get subconsciously "forced" to write a short piece to share to the world before I get lost in my emails, Twitter, and FB...
Apparently, starting a new habit is really hard. Life always get in the way. There is this call (referrals/ admissions) from hospital A, then hospital B. There is this habit of patients to come in your clinic when you are about to have your lunch ( clinic time is 10-12 in am, not much to see when you arrive early but a throng arrives at 11:45am) so you finish almost 2 pm very hungry. And when you are to come home for dinner ( clinic time in pm is 4:30 to 7pm, the gang cluster of patients arrive around 6:45pm) so you finish almost 9pm and when you come home, the kids are usually asleep and you take your dinner watching the last batch of telenovelas for the day and you're so poofed right after, you lost consciousness the moment your back hits the bed.
Beyond the medical life, there are too many distractions also. Your wife who is equally busy with her patients suddenly asks you to bring the kids to the dentist for their dental appointment (Yep, I have a 2 hr window to travel from Dau after my morning clinic to Bacolor to have lunch, bring the kids to the dentist in Angeles, wait for them to finish, to bring them back to our home in Bacolor and then catch my 4:30pm clinic in Dau....whew). If not dental appointment, maybe their singing and painting lessons and of course, our tutoring them on their classroom assignments, etc. Yep, life is SO SO filled up and busy for me......... Well, that's what it appears to be..... but I chose NOT to be.
Yes each of us have 24 hours a day to spend on what we think will make us feel good (well not really everything is spent actively, take off at least 6 hours for sleep, so 18 hrs). But honestly, many of us spend at least 3 hours of television everyday. 18 hrs of awake time, 3 hrs of TV time..that's 1/6 of our lives awake infront of the TV ( about 85 hours of TV a month!). And I can't understand why many of us (me included) could not spend at least 20 minutes a day writing down what you want to do with your life (believe me it should not be just work and FB!) for the next 5, 10, and 20 years. Or spend the same amount of time learning something new beyond your daily routine/ work, Or sharing what you already know to others so you can make a statement in the world (like what I am supposed to do with this blogging). 18 hours a day for each of us human beings...whether very poor or very rich...and it's how it is properly spent that makes a man poor or rich.
They say if you want to start a good habit right and regularly, set a fixed time of the day to do it. Some prefer the moment they wake up, some right before sleeping. Sigh, I know too much principles but I still have to work these principles into my life.
I would be reading self discipline and time management articles/books this week and would share them to you thru blogging in my next posts (which I hope would be just a few days from now. Ciao!
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that is why they call it the present.“ –
Kung Fu Panda
Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
The struggle to build good habits
Just woke up at about 7:30am and realized that I've missed a pretty important event. I had been invited by Dra Dizon 2 nights before to join in the "Ta Run Na Abe" ( Come on Let's Run), a 2.5, 5 ,10, & 21 km marathon/ fun run organized by a medical organization (group of Family Med MDs) which supposedly had started at 5 am this morning....
Nah, running is not for me, and yes to support that, my companions here at home are still in cloud 9 snoring. I would just get a tiger look if I woke them and forced them to go with me. I've been telling them esp my better half about the event and what if we join in just for fun. Yep my invitation entered their left and exited their right ear.. :( . It looks pitiful if I alone would set off for it in Clark so I rested my case.
Though well rested I still feel I've missed a lot and so I turned on that threadmill machine & in spirit, joined them marathoners while watching David Foster (The Hitman and Friends DVD). The music is superb and keeps me to the beat, it distracts me from being tired though I just have to stop at 2.8 km in 30 mins ( a pre set program). I'm not an endurance conditioned man. Besides I don't have a cardiac monitor attached on me...
It was always my goal to remain healthy but I just had an attack of an irregular heart (atrial fibrillation) December 2005 after having had a drink in our Christmas party. A series of tests while being confined showed that I have a bicuspid aortic valve, a 28% stenotic obstruction in my right coronary artery, and hypertriglyceridemia. My world literally stopped during that time as I always limited myself from doing physical activities, just walking gives me chest discomfort. I felt depressed not being able to help my wife with our daily bread. Yep, one sad thing about being a doctor is you may earn much bigger while working but when you stop (like when you get sick), nothing will go in.
But then I recall my good friend-colleague Edgar telling me, "Hey, you're still too young and you have small kids to look out for. Don't let this control you.". When this got into me, I suddenly realized the truth in what he said. Though I've been on maintenance since then, am glad to be almost always symptom free for the past 7 years. I've been "fortunate" enough to have fatty liver, GB stones (had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 2009), & kidney stones (had shock wave lithotripsy in Dec 2011) but what the heck, I remain committed to reach a ripe old age of 90 so I could still meet & even play with my grand kids.
I'm formulating an exercise plan despite my toxic schedule as a practitioner, my patients are not quite benign nowadays (have had 4 intubated ICU patients this week :( ). It's hard but will be using some tools to achieve this, I'll be sharing them in the next posts (tools I learned from success mentors). Yep, there's the diet thing, I eat like a true blue Kapampangan, salty and fatty foodstuffs are really hard to resist especially when all the people in the household crave for them and that our helpers are great cooks. That's an extra challenge to use tools upon.
Good luck!!
Nah, running is not for me, and yes to support that, my companions here at home are still in cloud 9 snoring. I would just get a tiger look if I woke them and forced them to go with me. I've been telling them esp my better half about the event and what if we join in just for fun. Yep my invitation entered their left and exited their right ear.. :( . It looks pitiful if I alone would set off for it in Clark so I rested my case.
Though well rested I still feel I've missed a lot and so I turned on that threadmill machine & in spirit, joined them marathoners while watching David Foster (The Hitman and Friends DVD). The music is superb and keeps me to the beat, it distracts me from being tired though I just have to stop at 2.8 km in 30 mins ( a pre set program). I'm not an endurance conditioned man. Besides I don't have a cardiac monitor attached on me...
It was always my goal to remain healthy but I just had an attack of an irregular heart (atrial fibrillation) December 2005 after having had a drink in our Christmas party. A series of tests while being confined showed that I have a bicuspid aortic valve, a 28% stenotic obstruction in my right coronary artery, and hypertriglyceridemia. My world literally stopped during that time as I always limited myself from doing physical activities, just walking gives me chest discomfort. I felt depressed not being able to help my wife with our daily bread. Yep, one sad thing about being a doctor is you may earn much bigger while working but when you stop (like when you get sick), nothing will go in.
But then I recall my good friend-colleague Edgar telling me, "Hey, you're still too young and you have small kids to look out for. Don't let this control you.". When this got into me, I suddenly realized the truth in what he said. Though I've been on maintenance since then, am glad to be almost always symptom free for the past 7 years. I've been "fortunate" enough to have fatty liver, GB stones (had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 2009), & kidney stones (had shock wave lithotripsy in Dec 2011) but what the heck, I remain committed to reach a ripe old age of 90 so I could still meet & even play with my grand kids.
I'm formulating an exercise plan despite my toxic schedule as a practitioner, my patients are not quite benign nowadays (have had 4 intubated ICU patients this week :( ). It's hard but will be using some tools to achieve this, I'll be sharing them in the next posts (tools I learned from success mentors). Yep, there's the diet thing, I eat like a true blue Kapampangan, salty and fatty foodstuffs are really hard to resist especially when all the people in the household crave for them and that our helpers are great cooks. That's an extra challenge to use tools upon.
Good luck!!
Saturday, April 21, 2012
What's with this blog??
It's my first day to blog again in about 2 years! My previous blogs were more of the cut and paste type, heck mainly to create an advertisement filled page for others to click on and for me to earn (how sad). Well mainly it's because I barely have the time to write. Too much preparation gets you into analysis paralysis. Now I just know I have to place my fingers on the keyboard and let it flow...
Why did I create this blog? What's with the title? There are billions of super blogs out there, who would take the time to glide their eyes on my piece? Well I can't answer all these. I just have to share what I learn, see, experience daily and just write, write, write.
What to expect here? My hopefully daily journal 1. as a father 2. as a medical doctor-internist ( nope, no medical lectures here!! But yes to tips and uncanny experiences) 3. as an aspiring online entrepreneur ( delving into internet and online affiliate businesses worth exploring, the very good ones will be share with you), as a network marketer (lots to spill on the groups I've joined in), 4. as an inactive licensed realtor ( I'm still updated on the good projects, thanks to my local realtor society), 5. as a traveler ( the world is a colorful and strange place!), 6. as an investor ( thanks to Mr Kiyosaki of Rich Dad, Poor Dad who I virtually met in 2005 thru his book, money is not evil and scarce as I thought it was), and more importantly 6. as a life and success learner ( I actively strive to be taught by mentors like Jim Rohn, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, Bo Sanchez, Jomar Hilario, Larry Gamboa, etc and even pay subscription fees to learn from them. And yes, in my following blogs I'll just lay some for you to take in.
When a candle is lit, it should be placed far out in the dark to fulfill its purpose. That's what our life's lessons are supposed to be, to be a lightpost for others.
Feel free to comment and give suggestions! We are all learners here.
PS: To avoid spamming and VERY violent counter comments (I hope none :), I will have to moderate them before publishing.
It's the start of a new adventure!!
Why did I create this blog? What's with the title? There are billions of super blogs out there, who would take the time to glide their eyes on my piece? Well I can't answer all these. I just have to share what I learn, see, experience daily and just write, write, write.
What to expect here? My hopefully daily journal 1. as a father 2. as a medical doctor-internist ( nope, no medical lectures here!! But yes to tips and uncanny experiences) 3. as an aspiring online entrepreneur ( delving into internet and online affiliate businesses worth exploring, the very good ones will be share with you), as a network marketer (lots to spill on the groups I've joined in), 4. as an inactive licensed realtor ( I'm still updated on the good projects, thanks to my local realtor society), 5. as a traveler ( the world is a colorful and strange place!), 6. as an investor ( thanks to Mr Kiyosaki of Rich Dad, Poor Dad who I virtually met in 2005 thru his book, money is not evil and scarce as I thought it was), and more importantly 6. as a life and success learner ( I actively strive to be taught by mentors like Jim Rohn, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, Bo Sanchez, Jomar Hilario, Larry Gamboa, etc and even pay subscription fees to learn from them. And yes, in my following blogs I'll just lay some for you to take in.
When a candle is lit, it should be placed far out in the dark to fulfill its purpose. That's what our life's lessons are supposed to be, to be a lightpost for others.
Feel free to comment and give suggestions! We are all learners here.
PS: To avoid spamming and VERY violent counter comments (I hope none :), I will have to moderate them before publishing.
It's the start of a new adventure!!
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